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Magento have released a very encouraging and well received statement, at the start of Summer 2017. There is no Magento 1.9 End Date set. https://magento.com/blog/magento-news/ongoing-magento-1-support The exec summary is that there are no plans to end support for Magento 1, and when they do intend to stop support they will provide 18 months notice. Whilst … Read more

We have a few Magento customers using SagePay. At around 1900 on Sunday 19th November we started receiving reports from our eCommerce customers that their sites were receiving timeout issues when their customers were pressing the all-important Place Order button. The message on screen and in logs should resemble something like: 2017-11-20 16:54:19.000000 (1511196859.8531) ALERT: … Read more

Gotcha! There’s a big, big one that a “Magento 2 user we know” was caught out by only very recently. It’s possible that this is an area devoid of wider public exposure so we thought we’d jot it down in one place so if someone is suffering the same symptoms they can be relieved quickly … Read more

We have been looking at the new Magento PayPal OneTouch and In-Context Checkout module, recently released to Magento Connect. You might be looking at the reviews of the module and be fearful of it breaking your Magento installation – as was the experience of several reviewers in the earlier releases of this module. However, we’re … Read more

During a recent conversation with some entrepreneurial retailers, we got to talking about choosing which vertical markets could be worth investing in, and what the initial and ongoing effort would be to manage the end to end relationship from distributor to end user. Having worked at the sharp end of multi-channel IT resale, we know … Read more

You probably already know this if you’re someone who spends any time in the Magento Admin section, but there’s a new patch with a serious enough warning to install straight away. If you’re a eCommerce store owner who doesn’t spend any time in Magento Admin, then ask someone who does whether they’ve seen or dealt … Read more